Key Performance Chronology
2024
Le Versement des Soeurs Cygnes (The Pouring of the Swan Sisters)
2023
Shocked
Tres Chic: The Beauty Borg Full Circle
The Soft Cyborg Meets the Beauty Borg
2022
Two Pairs and Twenty Toes
What is Art?
Inertia
Line (from Shame on Me)
2021
Princess Mythology (excerpt from solo show Escaping Biology, Irondale ON WOMEN festival)
Becoming Human - Butoh Breath Project
Candy: A Day in the Life
Nailing Beauty (a putoh performance)
Bifurcated Bonnie (a putoh performance)
Montgomery Imrovizations
Butoh Bodybuilder series
Choked (UNFIX NYC festival)
Maybe – Sad Man Series
The Estudios (ongoing)
Not Broken (live)
Tia Maria (live)
2020
Almost - Sad Man Series
Rolling
Sweet Desire
Something For Your Mind
2019
Tres Chic: The Beauty Borg
A Chance Encounter - Sad Man Series
Ranchera Grief (Eyeworks)
Industrial Blue (Eyeworks)
Tableau of the Lost (Eyeworks)
Flutter (Eyeworks)
An Unfamiliar Madness (Eyeworks)
Bathtub Reminiscence
Time’s Square 9/11 Commemoration (Vageline Theatre)
2018
Fieldwork Workshop (Escaping Biology)
2017
Fieldwork Workshop (FOR HER OWN GOOD: Chronicles of Women and Madness)
Magic Touch (FOR HER OWN GOOD: Chronicles of Women and Madness)
Butoh Flamenco and Group Performance (Coney Island Ritual Cabaret Festival)
2016
Coney Island Butoh and Beyond Festival group performance
What’s in the Closet (Writers in Performance, Tribeca PAC)
2015
Kinesthesia Bones
The Lily
2014
The Suitcase (The Sad Man Series)
2013
The Pink Room (excerpt from Escaping Biology)
Warhorse
2012
Red
2011
Valley of the Moms (excerpt from Escaping Biology)
I Dream of Colored Inks (collaboration with sculptor Sylvia Nagy)
Well-Tempered Exposition by Pablo Helguara (Performa)
2010
Global Warming (collaboration with sculptor Sylvia Nagy)
Valley of the Moms (Escaping Biology)
Tomato Hands Knife Feet
2009
MOMA a Go-Go (with artist Julie Harvey)
Bibi Brazil and the Quest for the Perfect Vagina (Escaping Biology)
How Shifra Lost Her Head (Escaping Biology)
Cutting Edge (collaboration with artist Jef Campion)
Faun
2008
Post Modern Chic
Moving Points of View (with sculptor Sylvia Nagy)
I Believe (Evolution Arts Residency)
Push-Pull (Evolution Arts Residency)
Sea Herself: The Devolution of a Beauty Queen (Evolution Arts Residency)
2007
Loss
Mask in the Mirror
Butoh Bodybuilding Baby
2005–2006
Water Cure (FOR HER OWN GOOD: Chronicles of Women and Madness)
La Chanteuse d’Opera
Penetrating Empathy – Cilla Vee Life Arts
Sickness (Neuvo Butoh Harpa)
Madam May (Neuvo Butoh Harpa)
The Elements (Neuvo Butoh Harpa)
2004
War Haikus, Haikus for War
Yellow Creeping Paper (FOR HER OWN GOOD: Chronicles of Women and Madness)
2003
Hungry Jack and Spamela Anderson performance installation and the Feast Fairy feedings
Universal Longings
2002
The Story of a Phallus Woman (Cabaret Performance Art Solo Show)
Censored II
2001
Amy Abrahams Performs Preparation and Presentation/Strip Salon (Salon Apartment Series)
La Guapa Gorging Geisha, Ciao/Chow Salon (Salon Apartment Series)
Sgt. Anna Conda and Combat Confessions/Closet Salon (Salon Apartment Series)
Moving Boundaries, Moving Bodies
Reaction Tactics
1999–2000
Cave of Knowing
Annie Fanny Get Your Gun (continuation of “cabaret performance art”)
Human Buffet performance feedings and installations
Butterfly Dream (first group butoh dance performance)
Censored I
1997–1998
The Theater of Operations: The Cheerleader and the Truth
Rosy Spade – Museum of Fetishized Identities with Guillermo Gomez Peña
Member of the Cunning Linguists performance poetry group
1995–1996
Birth of original work while obtaining Masters of Art in Contemporary Theatre Practice at the University of Essex, UK:
Happy Birthday to Me
Salome Jones
Ladies Who Go Bump in the Night (full-length “cabaret performance art” solo show)
1994–1995
Actors Equity Association (AES) summer stock apprenticeship at the historic Barn Theatre, Augusta, MI
First performance at Theatre for the New City (Celebration Reclaimed, Arthur Sainer) and the start of a 25+-year association
1993
CBGB Gallery 313 Improv Group
1991–1992
Minneapolis regional theatre and film
1982–1991
Traditional musical theatre, acting, and dance productions (school, camp, university, community theatre)